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chrisrhee | 2 years ago | on: Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004)

Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-pl...

New York Times runs Firefox ad https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/new-york-tim...

> The first page of the two-page ad--which is twice as large as originally planned--features the Firefox symbol superimposed over the names of the 10,000 donors

My name is somewhere in that mix. I lost the physical newspaper copy at some point in the last 19 years. but it's cool the PDF is still around.

Surprised the getfirefox.com domain from the ad still works!

In the Battle of the Browsers '04, Firefox Aims at Microsoft https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/technology/in-the-battle-...

> the early enthusiasm for the preview version of Firefox is a big reason that Internet Explorer's market share has slipped more than 2.5 percentage points in the last five months, to 92.9 percent at the end of October, its first decline since 1999

chrisrhee | 14 years ago | on: Everything I wish someone had told me (about freelancing)

> You’re not your own boss, you’ve got about 30 different bosses

As a freelancer, you get to choose those bosses. Much harder to do at a regular job.

> If you’re not on twitter, it reflects poorly on you. The design community is strongly linked to the start-up and web-dev communities.

Minor nitpick: Our design community is strongly linked to the start-up and web-dev community. But other design communities exist outside of the software world :)

Good information in the article. Shared it with friends who are getting started with freelancing. I'm sure they're in a better position now than me, when I was starting out.

chrisrhee | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Tell me about your failed startup.

> The relationships we made while running 9rules are priceless. Almost every good thing that's happened to my career since 2005 I can attribute directly to 9rules or recognition that 9rules brought me.

This goes for me, too. As a former member, I'm grateful for the work you guys put in to build the site and especially the community. I met a lot of awesome people.

Thanks for writing this breakdown. It was an interesting read. I was always curious about what happened when you guys went your separate ways.

chrisrhee | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What did you do this year?

* Evaded a "real job" for another year

* Redesigned the admin interface for Tender (http://tenderapp.com)

* Worked with some amazingly talented people at ENTP, makers of Tender and Lighthouse (http://lighthouseapp.com)

* Moved to downtown Portland. First time in my life I've been able to walk to an office. It's a GREAT feeling.

* Refined the design of my work blog (http://neatfocus.com/blood) and food blog (http://cutandtaste.com)

* Spent too much time on Hacker News, Quora, Dribbble and Forrst

chrisrhee | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Inspirational money making web apps made by hackers.

http://lighthouseapp.com — Bug tracking app created by 2 people. Used by businesses big and small, as well as some popular open-source projects (like Ruby on Rails)

http://tenderapp.com — Customer support app created by 2 people (out of necessity when Lighthouse started getting big).

Both apps are by ENTP. We have 2 programmers & 3 designers now and are working on redesigns for both Lighthouse & Tender. We actually just released a sneak peak yesterday: http://hoth.entp.com/2010/10/5/sneak-peek-tender-admin-2-0

chrisrhee | 16 years ago | on: HN Members' Workspaces

I split my time between...

Home office:

* http://neatfocus.com/blood/uploads/2010/01/chris_rhee_office...

* http://neatfocus.com/blood/uploads/2010/01/chris_rhee_office...

* http://neatfocus.com/blood/uploads/2010/01/chris_rhee_office...

ENTP office in downtown Portland:

* http://img.skitch.com/20100322-1ry7cncxbshimmt73k6pmbd52r.jp...

* You could be in this photo. We're hiring ROR developers: http://hoth.entp.com/2010/3/23/we-re-hiring-2

1,000,000 coffee shops & hotels:

* Not pictured.

chrisrhee | 16 years ago | on: Why Designers Should Code

> Are there still web designers who don't know how to code HTML and CSS?

Lots. Big agencies I know of have designers who spend all day in Adobe products and don't touch the code. These are the people creating official sites for movies, video games, Fortune 1000 brands, etc.

So it depends on where you find web designers: If it's through blogs and such, then yeah, a bigger percentage of them will also do front-end code. But from my experience, agencies tend to compartmentalize.

chrisrhee | 16 years ago | on: So You're Moving to San Francisco

Coincidentally, I left the bay area for Portland -- just got here 4 days ago. The past 20 years, I lived in Campbell, San Jose and Oakland. After visiting Portland for a week of vacation, I signed a lease on a loft up north.

Not sure if I've taken in enough of the new city to write an in-depth comparison. But if there's anything you want to ask, feel free.

chrisrhee | 16 years ago | on: Apple iOffer (Offer letter done the Apple way)

I contracted on-site in Cupertino for a year. They have 35,000 employees, so if you're looking to join a tiny start-up where everyone is 23 years old and best friends, you're not going to find that at Apple. Actually, I used the large crowds of employees to my advantage and basically "snuck" into the offices every day for the last few months I worked there when my security badge stopped working (long/uninteresting story.)

I've never worked for a big corporation, but working for Apple is probably like working for any other company with that size of a workforce. Some people love their job, some people are bored and a lot of it depends on which group/department you're in. I was a little turned off by the cubicle/office farms in some of the buildings, which are probably setup like that due to security.

I saw Steve Jobs a few times at the cafeteria. But he did not yell at me. Or anyone else.

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